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Lewisburg (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
restore it to par. November 9 The President returned Saturday evening, looking pretty well. Yesterday, Sunday, he was under the necestity of reading a dispatch from Gen. Lee, announcing the surprise and capture of two brigades on the Rappahannock! This is a dark and gloomy day, spitting snow; while not a few are despondent from the recent disasters to our arms. It is supposed that we lost 3000 or 4000 men on Saturday. A day or two before, Gen. Echols had his brigade cut up at Lewisburg! Per contra, Brig.-Gen. W. E. Jones captured, on Saturday, at Rogerville, 850 prisoners, 4 pieces of artillery, 2 stands of colors, 60 wagons, and 1000 animals. Our loss, 2 killed and 8 wounded. So reads a dispatch from R. Ransom, Major-Gen. There is some excitement in the city now, perhaps more than at any former period. The disaster to the Old guard has put in the mouths of the croakers the famous words of Napoleon at Waterloo: Sauve qui peut. We have out our last reserves, and t
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
Chattanooga. And to-day bread is selling at 50 cents per loaf-small loaf! And now the Assistant Secretary of War, Judge Campbell, is allowing men to pass to Maryland, through our lines. First, is a Rev. Mr. A. S. Sloat, a chaplain in the army. He was degraded for some offense by his own church, and his wife and children havtter on file, he is allowed a passport to follow them. Recommended by Mr. S. R. Tucker. Second, Mr. J. L. White and Mr. Forrester are allowed passports to go to Maryland for ordnance stores. Recommended by Col. Gorgas. Third and lastly, Tom wash. Smith is allowed, by the Assistant Secretary, to take fifteen boxes of tobacco to Maryland, and promises to bring back medical stores. Recommended by B. G. Williams, one of Gen. Winder's detectives, and by Capt. Winder, one of the general's sons. They bring in stores, when they return, in saddle-bags, while whole cargoes are landed at Wilmington! November 10 It is supposed our loss in the surprise on
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
d meal would decline in price. But a lethargy has seized upon the government, and no one may foretell the consequences of official supineness. The enemy at Chattanooga have got an advantageous position on Bragg's left, and there is much apprehension that our army will lose the ground gained by the late victory. The Commissolina, and there was some danger of the President being intercepted at Weldon. Thousands believe that Gen. Bragg is about to retire from before Grant's army at Chattanooga. And to-day bread is selling at 50 cents per loaf-small loaf! And now the Assistant Secretary of War, Judge Campbell, is allowing men to pass to Maryland, ne pounds of good beef, and a shank — for which he charged nothing, it being part of a present to him from a butcher. November 14 Some skirmishing between Chattanooga and Knoxville. From prisoners we learn that the enemy at both those places are on half rations, and that Grant intends to attack Bragg soon at Lookout Mountain
Matamoras (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
on London sells at $1 for $18.50, and gold brings about the same. Our paper money, I fear, has sunk beyond redemption. We have lostfive steamers lately; and it is likely the port of Wilmington (our last one) will be hermetically sealed. Then we shall soon be destitute of ammunition, unless we retake the mineral country from the enemy. Mr. Memminger has sent a press to the trans-Mississippi country, to issue paper money there. Mr. Slidell writes that all our shipments to and from Matamoras ought to be under the French flag. There may be something in this. The President was expected back to-day; and perhaps came in the evening. He is about to write his message to Congress, which assembles early in December, and perhaps he desired to consult Gen. Lee. Everywhere the people are clamorous against the sweeping impressments of crops, horses, etc. And at the same time we have accounts of corn, and hay, and potatoes rotting at various depots! Such is the management of the
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
ee times that number. The President made a speech in Charleston on the 1st instant. We have copies from him to day of hhas not yet returned, but was inspecting the defenses of Charleston. The Legislature has adjourned without fixing a maximumal of lost friendships, and hence he lingered longest at Charleston, in social intercourse with Gens. Beauregard and Wise, warter, except the continued bombardment of the debris of Fort Sumter, and the killing and wounding of some 10 or 12 men thereWe have no news whatever, except some damage reported at Charleston, done to two monitors yesterday. The bombardment has asothing additional to-day, except another attempt to take Fort Sumter by assault, which was discovered before the crews of theSince then some shells have been thrown into the city of Charleston, doing little damage. This morning was bright and wa company, commanded by a son of his friend, Trenholm, of Charleston, be stationed at Ashville, where his family is staying.
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
necessity. Mr. H. D. Whitcomb, Superintendent Central Railroad, applied for and obtained passports for his mother and sister to return to the United States. He is a Northern man. Brig.-Gen. S. A. Meredith (United States) writes from Fortress Monroe, proposing that prisoners west of the Mississippi be exchanged at Galveston. Mr. Ould, our agent of exchange, indorses on it that there is no necessity for immediate action, for the United States are not exchanging any prisoners at all at tnemy gets us more in his power. Rather submit to terms with France and England, or with either, than submission to the United States. Such are the opinions of a sagacious and experienced editor. Another letter from Brig.-Gen. Meredith, Fortress Monroe, was received to-day, with a report of an agent on the condition of the prisoners at Fort Delaware. By this report it appears our men get meat three times a day-coffee, tea, molasses, chicken soup, fried mush, etc. But it is not stated how
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
Bragg has applied for Gen. Forrest (who went some time since to Mobile and tendered his resignation, in a pet with Gen. Bragg) to command a cavalry force in North Mississippi and West Tennessee. In short, the President is resolved to sustain Gen. Bragg at the head of the army in Tennessee in spite of the tremendous prejudice agai Banks and Taylor in the West are corresponding and wrangling about the exchange of prisoners — and the cartel is to be abrogated, probably. The Governor of Mississippi (Clark) telegraphs the President that the Legislature (in session) is indignant at the military authorities for impressing slaves. The President telegraphs baclly sealed. Then we shall soon be destitute of ammunition, unless we retake the mineral country from the enemy. Mr. Memminger has sent a press to the trans-Mississippi country, to issue paper money there. Mr. Slidell writes that all our shipments to and from Matamoras ought to be under the French flag. There may be someth
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
mmunication is kept open with the enemy in East Tennessee. From St. Helena Parish, Ark., we hav little more infantry, he could soon clear East Tennessee of the foe; and asks that an order from Get on the right), and drive Burnside out of East Tennessee. But he complains of Gen. Buckner, who assumes to have an independent command in East Tennessee and West Virginia. The President replies thaustain Gen. Bragg at the head of the army in Tennessee in spite of the tremendous prejudice againstthe government with iron, his works being in Tennessee, whence he has been driven by the enemy. Anion of his employees, provided he returns to Tennessee and fulfills his iron contract. November ecome of the slaves, especially in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri? November 12 Ns captured several hundred of the enemy in East Tennessee, driving the rest into the fortifications e a decisive battle. I met Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, to-day. He asked me if I did not think our[3 more...]
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
g and despondencyand so large a body were to embrace the terms as to render a prolongation of the war impracticable? What would the money the farmers now possess be worth? And what would become of the slaves, especially in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri? November 12 No accounts of any fighting, but plenty of battles looked for. A. A. Little writes to the Secretary of War from Fredericksburg, that the attempt to remove the iron from the Aquia Railroad by the government haoke the appointments of all impressing agents in that State, and appoint none but civilians and citizens. I hope the Secretary will act upon this hint. But will he? The papers contain the following: Arrived in Richmond.-Mrs. Todd, of Kentucky, the mother of Mrs. Lincoln, arrived in this city on the steamer Schultz, Thursday night, having come to City Point on a flag of truce boat. She goes South to visit her daughter, Mrs. Helm, wife of Surgeon-General Helm, who fell at Chickamauga.
Portsmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
d, caprice and folly have combined to snap the silken cord, and break the golden bowl. These are the consequences of a persistency in sectional strife and domination, foreseen and foretold by me in the Southern Monitor, published in Philadelphia; no one regarded the warning. Now hundreds of thousands are weeping in sackcloth and ashes. over the untimely end of hundreds of thousands slain in battle! And thousands yet must fall, before the strife be ended. November 2 A refugee from Portsmouth reports the arrival of 6000 Federal troops at Newport News, and that Richmond is to be menaced again. Brig.-Gen. H. W. Allen, Alexandria, La., reports 8000 deserters and skulking conscripts in that vicinity, and a bad state of things generally. Gen. Lee has written three letters to the department, dated 30th and 31st October. 1st, complaining of the tardiness of the Bureau of Examination, and the want of efficient officers; 2d, complaining of the furloughs given Georgia officers as
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